Super Legend Pilots Gain Amphibious and Straight Seaplane Equipment
American Legend Aircraft Company released their newly manufactured seafaring equipment for their series of Cub-derived Super Legend. Owners of such planes can choose from amphibious or straight floats from popular, longtime floatplane outfitter PK Floats.
The announcement coincides with a recent victory of an aircraft so-equipped at the 2021 Greenville International Seaplane Fly-in, where the freshly outfitted Super Legend secured the first place prize in a takeoff competition. The builder and pilot, Dick Parsons, had recently retrieved his PK 2050A floats and completed installation just in time to compete. On the topic of his win, Parsons said his Legend "won by a lot", thanks to its aerodynamic floats and stroked Titan O-340 engine.
The newly available equipment traces its lineage back to the Edo 2000, a set of classic 1925 Cub floats. Parsons said the new PK pieces fly much like their progenitor, something that PK says did not come about by pure coincidence. Levi Guimond, vice president of operations at PK Floats, says that their product is a successor in many ways, that his company derived some portion of their product from Edo decades prior. "We adopted a similar manufacturing process [to the Edo 2000] when the patent expired in 1954," he said.
Parsons says they don't mirror the vintage kit, by any means. Their modern design integrates some of the best changes made in the nearly 100 years since the first cub floats were designed. "The whole nose gear is different than what was done before on the Baumann floats. For retraction, the PKs have an electric-hydraulic pump built-in. Four up, and four down lights are visible on the dash. Only electrical wires run to the floats from the cockpit," said Parsons. PK says, "the system makes them easy to operate, simplifies rigging, and contributes to reduced weight."
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